What To Expect When You’re Electing: Part 2 – Mitt Romney
Romney.jpg In Part 1 of this series, we explored the overall environmental issues that are facing the U.S., mostly as a part of coordinated attacks by politicians in Washington. In…
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Indisputable Proof of Climate Change
The Harper government is muzzling government scientists to stop them from interpreting extreme weather phenomena like record-shattering heatwaves, freak storms, drought and wildfires. Luckily, in this modern age of the…
Wanted: “Radicals” Against Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline
Are you a Canadian radical? Are you ready to Harper and Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway pipeline? If your answer to both questions is YES, this call to action from radicals4ourcoast.ca…
USA Urban Population Growth Outpaces the Suburbs
Regular readers know that in the modern world an urban lifestyle is more sustainable than a suburban lifestyle so it’s pretty good news to see that more people in the…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that to occupy your Canada Day. – Tim Harford discusses why randomized trials as part of a genuine evidence-gathering process are a must in developing public policy. –…
On truth in advertising
It’s been quite some time since I did anything new with Photoshop – and lately, that’s been more out of a lack of time than a lack of readily available…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Dan Gardner rightly notes that we should be encouraging more public advocacy from charities and other groups with useful input to offer into…
The Red Deer River Oil Spill Digest
This is a summary of the first 15 updates pertaining to the Red Deer River oil spill… Update #1 Tracey McCrimmon, executive director of the Sundre Petroleum Operators Group, a…
The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #15
This is Update #15 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Gleniffer Lake reopens, although cleanup of the shoreline is not yet finished, Alberta Environment said the water quality is…
Harper Government Must Set Canadian Scientists Free
Nature, one of the biggest and most-read scientific journals in the world, made this call in a February 29th editorial. The journal lamented the Harper Government’s undisguised hostility to openness,…
On Growth and Its Limits
George Monbiot offers a fascinating insight in the wake of last week’s United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro. While rightly deriding the declaration adopted by…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Michael Harris slams the Cons for their attacks on science: How far has the government been prepared to go to smother the…
The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #14
This is Update #14 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Plains Midstream Canada continues to blog its cleanup efforts surrounding the Rangeland Pipeline System failure near Sundre, Alberta. Alberta…
Little research on effects of diluted bitumen
A Dilbit Primer: How It’s Different from Conventional Oil, Lisa Song, Inside Climate News, June 26, 2012 “Bitumen extracted from tar sands has the consistency of peanut butter and must…
The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #13
This is Update #13 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Plains Midstream Canada continues to blog its cleanup efforts surrounding the Rangeland Pipeline System failure near Sundre, Alberta. Current…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Dr. Dawg highlights Peter Russell’s take on the Cons’ 2008 efforts to prevent a Parliamentary majority from actually exercising its right to…
The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #12
This is Update #12 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… The Energy Resources Conservation Board says it has inspected the area for other oil pipeline or any other oil…
Rafe Mair raises his wise voice
No Souls but Lots of Cash, Rafe Mair, The Tyee, June 25, 2012 – BC’s crucial environmental battles pit citizens against politicians’ love of corporate money. “Corporations have a legal…
Meet The University Of Ottawa’s Ecojustice Clinic
From William Amos, director of the clinic: “A lot of ecojustice cases end up being David vs. Goliath battles; and that’s simply because the clients we serve in small communities…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for a sunny Sunday. – Paul Wells offers some theories as to why the Cons haven’t yet launched attack ads against Thomas Mulcair. But I’d think the more…